See Goodbye Kansas’ VFX breakdown for ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’, s3
Watch the breakdown reel here.
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ gets the VFX Notes breakdown
Smoke, tanks, environments...and rats!
Watch Brainstorm Digital’s ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ VFX breakdown
From the new AppleTV+ retro-future world show.
Go in-depth on the visual effects by FuseFX for ‘Wendell & Wild’
Combining stop-motion and digital effects.
Shape language, silhouettes and scanning ‘nurnies’
What it took to design Cinesite’s creatures for s2 of The Witcher. The basilisks and chernobog featured in season 2 of Netflix’s
So, what’s the latest on the Wētā Digital and Unity deal?
befores & afters got an update from Unity itself.
The water droplets on the kids fighting on the beach in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ took 8 days to simulate
Covering the CG characters with photoreal drips via a thin film solver was just one of the many water simulation challenges on
‘The Way of Water’ wins big at the VES Awards
The full list of winners is here! OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Avatar: The Way of Water Richard Baneham Walter
Fury — Or Else: Z by HP’s extreme Z8 Fury workstation launches with an extreme stunt
How the promo for Z8 Fury, from Z by HP, was made.
Spoilers! Watch this ‘Alice in Borderland’ s2 making of
It's from the Netflix Türkiye channel, but shows great behind the scenes.
How the VFX for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ were made
A new podcast with visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold.
See how miniatures, real aircraft and CG were combined for the plane scenes in ‘Wolf Hound’
EXCLUSIVE: Watch this visual effects breakdown for the film.
Have you checked out the VFX Notes Shorts?
The latest Shorts features Avatar: The Way of Water.
‘We literally turn-tabled real jets on the tarmac’
The VFX supervisor for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ breaks down the biggest visual effects challenges in the film, and some of the invisible
An old Amiga with ‘Titanic’ miniature shoot ‘video taps’ on it is a treasure-trove of VFX history
The Commodore Amiga 4000/040 was used by Digital Domain to help craft effects shots and review miniature shoots for Titanic, Apollo 13
‘I like the idea of doing a real place, underwater tank, LED screen, animatronic and CG, and then glueing them all together’
How ‘Emancipation’ VFX supervisor Rob Legato designed the Will Smith vs alligator scene.
Sci-Tech winners announced
Sci-Techs include recognition of rain bar practical FX, renderfarm management, 3D texturing and AI-driven facial veiling technology.
Here’s how Industrial Light & Magic orchestrated Luthen’s ‘lightsaber’ ship in ‘Andor’
Plus, behind the scenes on ship builds to replicate the ‘miniatures look’, Ferrix’s shipyard, and Coruscant’s cityscapes.
How to find befores & afters content online, in audio and video, and in print
A quick round-up of where you can find befores & afters stories, podcasts, videos and social media postings.
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The volumetric capture crowd tech behind ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’
A step-by-step on how 700 terabytes worth of volumetric capture was crafted for the concert crowds in the Whitney Houston biopic.
The VFX Oscar noms are out!
Congrats to the nominees, and here's how befores & afters covered each project.
How the ‘Pinocchio’ VFX team took the stop-motion further
They crafted environments, water, snow, rain and many other effects for the Guillermo del Toro film.
This VFX studio has made a standalone AI app for de-aging
Vanity AI from MARZ is designed for 2D aging, de-aging, cosmetic, wig, and prosthetic fixes.
New compositing tool Autograph released by Left Angle
It's designed for motion design, visual effects, and 3D compositing.
A CG test for Thing in ‘Wednesday’ involved several tests including animating a short with a dancing appendage
Behind the scenes of the visual effects for Thing in the hit Tim Burton show.
The 21st Annual VES Awards nominees–see them all here
Read the whole list.
